Intecrowd’s Top 10 Opt-In Features for 2024R1

The Workday Release 2024R1 is here! While most attention is drawn to the automatic updates, it’s time to dive into the optional features that could redefine your Workday experience. With a range of optional features available, we understand it can be overwhelming.

Join us as we unveil Intecrowd’s Top 10 Opt-In Features for 2024R1! While not every feature will revolutionize your workflow, there are certainly some noteworthy additions you should consider adopting. Let’s explore why these top 10 features stand out and how they can elevate your experience.

Discover Kainos Smart An Intecrowd Partnership

You’re invited to join us for a unique opportunity to meet with our new innovation partner, Kainos, recognized for their expertise in Workday automation. In partnership with Intecrowd, they bring their experiences to guide you on streamlining and safeguarding your Workday operations.

Together, we’ll explore how you can overcome the complexities of supporting an ever-changing Workday landscape with Kainos Smart. We’ll share challenges that other Workday customers are facing and how automation has helped them in their journey to accelerate transformation and meet their compliance needs.

Highlighting Your Organization’s Value to Employees Year-Round: The Big Picture

While you may be familiar with Total Rewards, we’re excited to share significant enhancements in Workday for 2024 R1 (safe harbor applies), ushering in a fresh perspective on Total Rewards Statements. This revamped approach offers a snapshot of the comprehensive value your organization delivers, accessible via employee self-service every time they log into Workday.

Discover the various options available to deliver statements directly to employees’ Workday inboxes, and gain insight into the future of compensation review statements. We hope you can join!

Accelerate Your Workday Testing Process

Are you recently live with Workday? Navigating through your first release? Or aiming to optimize your “What’s New in Workday” weekly or release testing approach?

Get ready for our next Espresso with the Expert webinar as we cover all things testing, including our new Innovation Partnership with the Smart Test product. 

This interactive session is designed to serve as a mid-day coffee break, where an Intecrowd and a Smart Test expert will answer all of your testing questions.

Prep for the New “Goals as Cards” User Experience

Leveraging insights from several popular Brainstorms, Workday has released a new “Goals as Cards” experience, which will replace the previous process when adding and editing goals ad hoc from the worker profile. This release offers highly requested features such as Goal History, more accessible help text, and Organization Goal visibility right from the main Goals screen. This update has already been released to Preview and will be required upon the Production release of 2023R2.

Manage and Audit Your Payroll with Workday Reports & Dashboards

Did you know that Workday has recently released new reports to assist with auditing payroll results? Are you currently utilizing the Payroll Calculation Processing Report and Retro Calculation Processing Report to review and audit your payroll? Is your Pay Cycle Command Center optimized to aid in managing your payroll process, including pre-payroll and post-payroll processing? In this webinar, we demonstrate how to leverage Workday’s standard delivered reports and dashboards to support your payroll process and conduct audits. We also showcase the Pay Cycle Command Center and provide best practices for managing your payroll process.

Notification Designer: Branding Your External Communications

Experience the streamlined power of Workday Notification Designer! Say goodbye to tedious template creation and embrace effortless management of notification layouts. With Workday Notification Designer, you can effortlessly craft branded notification templates tailored to your organization’s needs. Whether it’s for task reminders, job alerts, or custom business processes, Notification Designer has you covered. In this webinar, our experts demonstrate the extensive configuration options at your disposal. You’ll witness firsthand how these visually appealing and branded notifications are received and the seamless integration and enhanced communication capabilities offered by Workday Notification Designer.

Testing Strategy Overview

This webinar will provide a deep dive into the testing stages of a Workday Deployment. The session will focus on the roles & responsibilities within your organization, the development of test scenarios, and testing preparation best practices.

Workday in Mergers & Acquisitions

Volatility in the market, regulations, and supply chain forces Merger & Acquisition (M&A) activities. Companies are finding themselves in unanticipated business transactions with many pieces to manage. Additionally, many companies, both buying and being sold, fail to measure or realize their anticipated value. In this webinar, we cover a standard M&A process from start to finish, sharing commonly asked questions and case studies throughout the phases. We also discuss considerations from both the buy and sell sides.

Customer Central and OX 2.0

Do you migrate reports, calculated fields, security, integrations, or other objects? With the 2023R1 release, Object Transporter (OX 1.0) is being deprecated and tenant-to-tenant migration will require Customer Central. OX is getting an upgrade to Object Transporter 2.0, but it comes with new setup requirements. Are you ready for this update?

People experience

People experience houses Workday Today, the new user interface for your Workday homepage. Workday Today will be automatically implemented for ALL tenants with 2022R1 in March. Our People Experience webinar helps you learn about the enhanced features that come with this.

Preparing for Year End: Workday Financials & Adaptive Planning

It’s that time of year again! 2023 is approaching, and with it, all of the once-a-year tasks and processes that you likely have not had to perform or consider since last year. During this webinar, we will review what you will need to wrap up your planning season, close out 2022, and ensure a seamless transition into the new year.

Tracking COVID 19 expenses with Workday

Thought leadership presentation on how you can leverage the expenses module to track COVID-related expenses against your expenses budget, how you can monitor the travel of employees post COVID, and how you can bring it all together for business decision making using reports and dashboards.

Plan ahead with Workday projects

Leveraging the Workday Projects Module During COVID-19: Thought leadership presentation on how you can leverage the projects module to forecast, track and report on COVID-19 related expenditures and how you can utilize this information through reports and dashboards.

Adjusting Workday spend for global pandemic

Want to track spend for COVID-19 (or other crises) but aren’t using Projects? This webinar walks through some basic configuration options that allow spend tracking for transactions, and reviews delivered reports that track this spend.

Revenue management during crisis

Leveraging the Workday Revenue Management During COVID: Thought leadership presentation on how you can leverage the Revenue Management module during COVID to donate a portion of sales to charity and how to providing discounts to customers during difficult times.

Supplier management

This webinar walks through Supplier configuration options to help companies adjust to their new normal. This will allow you to manage new and existing suppliers needed to enable employees to successfully maintain remote work or ease back safely into office life. We will also be discussing Workday’s Supplier Portal and Self Registration to streamline supplier activity.

Integrating Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE

Intecrowd has partnered with and developed a robust Integration to Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE Indirect Tax Engine.Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE Indirect Tax intelligently delivers real-time tax decisions for more than 14,000 tax authorities at the point of transaction, right into your existing Workday platform. This scalable solution enables you to better manage your tax requirements and gain a complete view of your sales and use tax liability from a single, unified system.

Driving value from Workday

Intecrowd provides Application Management Services (AMS) for over 85 customers in a variety of industries, with varying scale and breadth of Workday functionality and we are very aware that one size does not fit all!

Espresso with the Expert: Workday Reporting & Analytics

You have questions – we have answers! Get ready for our next Espresso with the Expert webinar: Reporting & Analytics. This interactive session is designed to serve as a mid-day coffee break where an Intecrowd expert can answer all of your Reporting & Analytics questions. Our expert, Liz Adams, is a Workday Product Lead in Reporting and was the recipient of the 2021 Product Lead of the Year Award!

Worksheets and Slides Overview

Data-driven deliverables are a key aspect of many businesses’ day-to-day operations. Oftentimes, organizations must account for stale and mismatched data caused by the use of external tools for file creation and collaboration. These factors introduce variables that can negatively affect decision-making. In this webinar, we cover how to use Worksheets and Slides to analyze and accurately present your most current Workday data. Additionally, we provide an overview of how to use Worksheets and Slides to collaborate within Workday’s security model.

Optimizing Workday adaptive planning after go-live

Hear from BC Assessment’s Arnold Litzenberger and Tanya Becker on how they were able to optimize their planning solution with Intecrowd’s help.

Analytics & Reporting: workforce trending analytics

Intecrowd’s Award-Winning Analytics and Reporting expert, Liz Adams, speaks to a customer’s journey to enhance their analytical insights through the use of an underutilized delivered functionality; Trended Workers.

Workday Discovery Boards: The analytics tool of the future

Learn more about how you can utilize the power of Workday Discovery Boards for your Reporting & Analytics needs. Since 2020R2’s Feature Release, 34% of Reporting & Analytic Feature Releases have been centered on Discovery Boards. This tool delivers the detailed reporting your team needs, all within the same application they use every day.

Espresso with the Expert: Workday Extend & Journal Line Reclassification

You have questions – we have answers! As an extension of our recent presentation with Workday on “The ROI of Extend with Intecrowd”, we are hosting Intecrowd’s second Espresso With The Expert. This interactive session is designed to serve as a mid-day coffee break where an Intecrowd expert can answer all of your questions about Extend and our new Workday Approved Solution, Journal Line Reclassification.

Workday Extend use cases

Intecrowd has been working with Workday Extend for the last three years. Come learn about some of the use cases we have seen in our projects, explore some of the capabilities of Extend, and see a demo of our California break Time app. You’ll leave this session not only with ideas but with an approach for how to start thinking about how Extend can produce a return on your organization’s investment in Workday.

Extending Workday Extend

Workday Extend opens up a variety of new possibilities for extending Workday functionality to further the capabilities of your business. Furthermore, it opens up the opportunity to leverage additional technology that can extend Extend.

Workday Extend: Design best practices

With Workday Extend you can create custom apps that operate in the Workday tenant. To build that custom software properly, you need a solid design that is more detailed than most other Workday designs. Come learn about the Extend design process, and see examples of artifacts that should result from it. This will help business users be more prepared to engage and help to expedite the design process with your internal development team or a trusted partner. This will help designers and developers better understand the level of effort and deliverables expected from them.

Workday vaccine management

Managing vaccines for our employees is part of the new normal for 2022. Fortunately, Workday provides options to effectively address this requirement. Explore the vaccine management capabilities Workday provides with recently released Core functionality and even more possibilities using Workday Extend.

Workday Extend: The chicken app

Mar-Jac Poultry became a new Workday Extend customer once it became generally available in late May 2020. They are already going live with two apps that will bring a 100+% annual return on investment. Come hear about their experience in their first Workday Extend project, and learn what to expect in yours!

Learning QuickStart

For Workday customers who have purchased Learning but not yet deployed it, Intecrowd has developed an innovative rapid deployment of Learning. This solution will get you up and running in a matter of days to facilitate enabling your staff to effectively work remotely and maintain productivity as well as help you leverage a valuable investment in Workday.

Learner experience and Workday today

Learning customers will have a new dashboard significantly different from what they use today. Workday Today is a component of People Experience (PEX) designed to provide a better end-user experience.